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| author | Melody Horn <melody@boringcactus.com> | 2020-10-21 19:52:37 -0600 |
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| committer | Melody Horn <melody@boringcactus.com> | 2020-10-21 19:52:37 -0600 |
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don't compile to C after all
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-**This is entirely a work-in-progress, and should not be relied upon to be stable in any way.**
+**This is entirely a work-in-progress, and should not be relied upon to be stable (or even true) in any way.**
-Crowbar is a language that compiles directly to [C99](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99), and aims to remove as many [footgun](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun)s and as much needless complexity from C as possible while still being familiar to C developers.
+Crowbar is a language that is derived from (and, wherever possible, interoperable with) C, and aims to remove as many [footgun](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun)s and as much needless complexity from C as possible while still being familiar to C developers.
Ideally, a typical C codebase should be straightforward to rewrite in Crowbar, and any atypical C constructions not supported by Crowbar can be left as C.
-In principle, there's no reason it would be impossible to write a compiler directly for Crowbar, skipping the C step entirely, but that would take a lot of work.
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# Removals
Some of the footguns and complexity in C come from misfeatures that can simply not be used.
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